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Timnit Gebru’s team at Google is going public with their side of the story

The Verge

But Gebru’s team is pushing back on that assessment, saying the review policy is meant to be flexible, and most people do not follow the structure Dean laid out. Gebru sent an email to the Brain Women and Allies listserv at Google detailing the pushback she’d gotten on the paper.

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FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This post from the npEnterprise Listserv Allen Bromberger does some great pro bono work for the field by answering questions on the npEnterprise list, which is the official list of the Social Enterprise Alliance (where I am proudly a founding board member and am in my last term). FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?

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Tips for Managing and Engaging Online Communities

Care2

took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. Yet even after all these years, many organizations still haven’t mastered how to use listservs in building successful and engaging online communities. The biggest barriers groups face is how to structure listservs.

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Advice for Consultants - Part 3

Robert Weiner

decide what your legal structure will be (sole practitioner, LLC, S Corp). Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. Deal with legal and administrative stuff, such as: get a business license. publish your business name in the paper. get a Federal Tax ID.

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TechSoup Global: A Tale of Two Dramatically Different Networks and Their Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It required more structure, planning because of the risk associated with failure. Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. The second network, Netsquared , in contrast was more loosely controlled with a lower risk in failure.

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TechCamp for Organizers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via an email from Dirk Slater posted to Rider-News listserv. Looks like a tad more structured than barcamp comes TechCamp for Organizers brought to you by Progressive Technology Project.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

For organizational leaders, deputizing—and supporting—the right person at your organization will return huge dividends in the form of clean, organized, and well-documented data structures. There are grassroots groups on social media, listservs, and informal peer groups for users of various Blackbaud products.

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